I've found a 180mm Fujinon W lens for sale that is claimed to cover 8x10. I'd love a lens in this focal length. Does anyone have experience with this lens on an 8x10? I cannot seem to find any information about the actual image circle size. Everything I find is for the newer 180mm CM-W which has a smaller image circle. How limited am I with movements etc?

I've been wondering about this myself, and I believe that this lens has a 300mm circle at infinity and f22, so you'd be VERY limited movement wise. 180 is a rather awkward focal length for the 8x10.

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Here's what I've found out so far. The lens has a 305mm image circle. Thus, no front movements. With back tilt I think everything would be fine for the typical landscape (i.e. flowers foreground/mtns background). I am really attracted to this lens as it is the 8x10 equivalent of my favorite 4x5 lens (90mm). Perhaps I should keep my eyes peeled for a 150mm Nikon SW. It would allow lots of movements with its 400mm image circle.

The 210mm is close to my 240mm, which is currently my widest 8x10 lens. I always wanted to try a 75mm on my 4x5; however, I never got around to getting one. Perhaps the 150mm Nikon SW would do the trick. I'm going to give the 180mm Fujinon a try this weekend and see what I think. Perhaps at smaller aperatures it will work just fine.

There were two 180mm Fujinon W designs. The older, non-multi-coated one would cover 8 x 10 with some movement if stopped down to f16 or 22. The newer, multi-coated lens will not cover 8 x 10. So, how do you tell them apart? Easy. The older lenses have the name and focal length on the retaining ring around the front element. The later design had the text on the outside of the front cell. Also, the serial numbers for the older lenses are on the front, with the rest of the name and description; on the newer lenses, they are on the outside of the rear cell.

The coverage of the old lenses were 80 deg. The newer design only covered 72 deg. You can calculate the image circle from that if you're any good with trig.